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If you enjoyed our last feature on Sergio Duce's captivating illustrations, you're in for another treat! Sergio, a talented artist and high school teacher from Zaragoza, Spain, continues to charm us with his heartwarming and nostalgic art. His simple yet powerful drawings bring back fond memories and spark meaningful conversations.

Sergio's illustrations tell a story, reflecting his deep connection to education and his passion for making people smile. So, get ready to dive back into the wholesome world of Sergio Duce and let his art brighten your day once again.

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SDLT010
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can read more books on a phone than you can on a book

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natalie lewter
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The irony that I'm looking at the art on my phone. Also let's just ignore that now we can use our phones to get almost any book through the library for free, both digital copies u can read anywhere and physical copies that u can pick up from the library directly. But yeah phones offer nothing.

Alya
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lol I was gonna comment on the fact I'm looking at this on my phone, too. I do so much of my book reading on my phone, it's so much more convenient to have with me if I go somewhere and like you said, there's the digital libraries which just widens my access

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Kavya
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For me, books will always be superior!

Verhygo
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1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The same argument was once made about books. Then movies, and video games. Now, the next target for blame is found. Why ever look for reasons inside humans, when the easy target is visible.

Sergio told Bored Panda that initially, he didn't exclusively dedicate himself to illustration. "For me, it is a creative activity that brings me a lot, more as a means of expression than as a means to earn money."

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    Alison Hobbs
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see this far too often, it breaks my heart

    Rosyposy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh look, it's me last week trying to navigate an unfamiliar part of the city, with a glitchy map app, and my kid chatting to me nonstop. I had to ask him to stop talking so that I could figure out where to go. Excuse me while I go have 'Bad Mother' tattooed on my forehead.

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    Roos Dillema
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Come to swing-castle-climbingwall-slide-daddy!

    Talking about motivation and creative blocks, Sergio shared that his motivation often wanes. "I have stages where nothing comes. I usually go to my notebook and review it; there is always something that gives me a push."

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    Deja Kat (Kitkatandahalf)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sad how many parents are like this. My mom's a ped nurse and she says the rate of language skills for toddlers and young children is decreasing from her experience. Parents are awnsering "hardly ever read/talk to their baby" more and more.

    tony field
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was “inspired” by Sergio Aragones (Mad magazine) material, “The shadow knows”.

    Karl der Große
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is very poignant. I see this all the time.

    MJ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A little different scenario, but my 6 yr old is taking swimming lessons at an indoor swim school. The school has a viewing window the full length of the pool so you can watch your kid with no obstructions. There’s 3 kids in my daughter’s class, and 3 or 4 in the younger class that happens at the same time in the shallower part of the pool. Every class I’m watching my girl holding her breath underwater, fearlessly doing cannonballs, swimming under water and retrieving “sinkies” from the bottom of the pool, and im so proud of her. I always tell her how good she did that day and she always asks if i saw such and such that she did and i can honestly say yes. I look down the line at 5 or 6 other moms, all with their noses stuck in the phones, not even glancing up once in 30 minutes. 😓

    Rosyposy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God forbid a mother take some time to herself while another adult is responsible for their child.

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    Dirk Daring
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon

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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i hope that child will be able to help someone like that. Is that the dad in the shadow when he's older??

    JoNo
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's both of them when they are older. Dad is an older man, toddler is a man.

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    Auntriarch
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh hell, yes, me and my dad, who is getting more and more like a shadow.

    Sergio usually draws in a small book that always accompanies him. "There, I capture ideas that occur to me or that I see around me. Then I transfer them to digital. I try to condense complex ideas into simple drawings. Sometimes, this simplification has made the drawings take on meanings different from what they originally had; however, I love that."

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    FBG
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It has always been thus

    MJ
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s why it’s good to learn to ask open ended questions. “What did you do that was fun today?” Instead of “Did you do anything fun?”

    Lynn Marie
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And what children say according to what they see and hear at home. It's a lot.

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    "Each person adapts the drawing to their experiences. Once uploaded to the internet, the work is no longer 100% mine; the interpretation, which is part of the work, belongs to each viewer."

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    Erica Gavlock
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Parents are on their phones more then kids in some house holds.

    Harriss Warman
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea because they earned it . The money and right to use one. The kids don't.

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    Carolyn Jones
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know he's meant to be flying, but it just looks like he tripped.

    Lester the Space Duck
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He just might have if he wasn't watching where he was walking!

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    La Petite Morte
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you've never barked your shins on a fire hydrant or said excuse me to a tree or lamppost you're not reading enough..

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    Rienk Kroese
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah I get it. It's a factory and children should working from the age of three. Got it. 👍🏼 No no, say no more.

    Maxxeen Dickinson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mom and dad are home for the baby, no matter where they are

    Bella Dreams
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of that kid’s drawing of “safe” 😭

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    Deja Kat (Kitkatandahalf)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's missing the homeless man yelling at people. Source: Ride public transit lol And honestly, I've literally never seen this either, most people are relatively present because they don't want to miss their stop. Now - the bus driver DOES have to tell people to get up sometimes lol but usually people do on their own.

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    Roy
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was once almost hit by a kid looking at his phone while riding a bike. I yelled "Heads up!" and he had the nerve to glare at me as he swerved by.

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    Rienk Kroese
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wtf is this. Education means you learn about OTHER things. You don't have to fly, to LEARN about flying. The penguin shouldn't feel bad. Edit: Most understand me wrong. The penguin should learn all there is about flying. It should use this knowledge to be an even better swimmer!! It's not the education that is wrong for teaching you things that you cannot master or grasp. You should pay attention ANYWAY and use the knowledge for something that you CAN do! A wise man can do more with a stick, than a fool with a sword. LEARN it, know yourself and grow yourself. And if you want to be good. Follow God.

    Yohualtica
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's like that phrase, "if you judge a fish for his ability to climb a tree, he's going to spend his life thinking he's stupid." Sometimes we're misguided, those who are supposed to teach us don't see our true potential in what we'd really be good at instead of what's assed it's the most ambitious career, or higher paying jobs

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    Alya
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one actually works imo. So often in education there's a standard of excellence and anyone who falls behind the norm is made to feel ashamed. It's like how so often intelligence is judged based off of one's abilities in things like STEM, especially math, and anyone who is unable to succeed in those things is deemed unintelligent. Luckily in my community college I'm attending there's a lot of support and lots of choices, so I don't feel so ashamed of my math struggles. But damn did I feel stupid growing up

    Elizabeth Stephens
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except this isn't a practical class. That is to say, the penguin is obviously not expected to fly here because there's no space to practice. This is a penguin getting upset because it learned other birds can do things. Which, then, makes the lesson don't teach kids about things that could make them sad???

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    Talvinder Ghangus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just because your moving forward, doesn't mean your not sinking...

    Hannah
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But mostly it just moves down lol

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    Anonymous User
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, we've lost all desire to innovate because we innovated a mini-computer that sits in our hands and gives us access to all known human knowledge.

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    Anonymous User
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's gonna happen with or without chat GPT. Do you all not remember the transition from training wheels? lol

    Ellis Cannon
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never learned to ride a bike with training wheels some of us don't get that experience in life. Litterally or metaphorically in life.. But yes you will probably fall at some point regardless, But why is the phone and not the parent there teaching is the question.

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When my health started to get bad, I worked a 15 minute walk from my house. When the walk became nearly an hour (extreme back pain, I'd stop and lean on anything I could), I knew it was time to do something. I ended up getting an adult tricycle. Compared to a bike, the steering is slow, and it's hard to get used to. Also, if you run over a rock or some such, only one butt cheek goes up and down. Mom borrowed Dad's truck, we took the trike to an empty parking lot, and I practiced. She told me she'd run alongside and hold on, like many parents do with a learning child. Mom was 65. I knew she wasn't holding on and running behind me. But I couldn't SEE that she wasn't. My eyes believed her, and I learned to ride the thing. Commutes no longer hurt so badly.

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    Corvus
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Demonizing education is never a smart move...

    Randi Hewitson
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its the way our educational system is set up, its origins were not designed to actually nurture a fulfilling environment for learning. Teachers are told to only teach things that will be on decided standardized tests, and they miss out on so much more in the mean time and doesnt encourage a lot of creativity. But theres a lot of amazing educators out there who do try. I know when a lot of us got to college, there was so much more to learn, it allows for more expansive depth, which i think is really helpful especially right now while attention spans are being honed to not withstand one topic or subject at length. Just my two cents. Education is great, i just wish the system was set up to really treat children as individuals and not just masses in classrooms with bubble answer sheets.

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    Zsófia Éva Aklan
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    1 year ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We adults know that schools are not prisons. We also know that knowledge is power so education is important. But children do not know this. Also, let's be honest, education isn't the only thing that happens in schools. What kind of teachers or people the kids interact with has a significant impact on both their minds and lives alike.

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um..... As an adult I completely disagree that schools aren't prisons. As a teenager I knew I wasn't actually getting a good education and I went to 3 different high schools (military family moved around a lot) so I educated myself in my free time.

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    Becca Burkett
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boo to portraying teachers and education in a poor light.

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *accurate light. Seriously look into it. Nobody is happy with the way the system is set up and I've seen so many teachers die a little inside realizing this years students have half the braincells last year's students did (not that they're stupid but previous teachers clarky didnt teach). Either the teachers don't care or the schools don't but trying to pretend the education system is good is beyond pointless when there's more than enough evidence from every angle that the education system is horrendous.

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    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree with this one. To me, learning has opened worlds I never knew existed.

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can almost guarantee had you had interests and chose to look into them yourself you would be more educated than any school could

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    Ariah Warnke
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Limiting children by failing to provide funding so that the rich can stay Rick is a trap worse than demonization, freedom of education is to give them the education they deserve. It wouldn't feel so much like prison if they were treated like prisoners.

    justagirl
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I rather enjoy school actually. It's where i get to be with friends, and my teachers are all great.

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are you 12? Because you can have friends not in school too

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    Ryan Mercer
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well they are a captive audience. Just say'n.

    Rienk Kroese
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You turn everything into a rainbow, even if lightning strikes you.

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    Roos Dillema
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    School is never a prison. I your child (or you yourself) think this there is something wrong in your thinking.

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    School is absolutely a prison. Go here, do this, eat, workout, wear what we tell you, go home. Also let's not forget that bullying in schools has only gotten better at hiding it isn't gone. If YOU think it's not a prison..... You obviously weren't paying attention

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    AngelWingsYT
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ppl are missing the point of this. Education has gone down hill. Kids are being taugh how to REMEMBER facts not APPLY facts. If you have a hard time remembering a ton of information in a dmall time frame you are considered stupid n put in "special ed" i tutored. The amount of kids i saw CRYING over homework cause they just couldnt understand it was heartbreaking. One kid VERY young learning subtraction was nearly in tears trying to solve 11-7. When i showed him a VISUAL method to solve it. It started to click. This tole me schools do NOT teach multiple methods for struggling kids and just let them struggle and likely blame THEM for not understanding

    CD Mills
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm highly pro-education and the School/Prison comparison tells me all I need to know about this guy. Boo!

    Talya Cassidy-Rowe
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That.... That it's accurate? Go here, do this, wear this, eat, exercise, here's your 30 minutes of outside time..... Not forgetting that most children and teenagers need time to physically develop and need to sleep. Also in my senior year of high school I was learning things in my maths class that I had already learned while I was homeschooled. A bunch of 18 year olds were learning the same thing I learned 5 years earlier. And they STRUGGLED. Public schools especially in America are horrible and are prisonish

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